Systematics of Lepidocyrtinusboneti Denis, 1948 (Collembola, Seirinae) reveals a new position for the species within Seirinae

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro; Yun Bu; Areeruk Nilsai; Louis Deharveng; Nikolas Gioia Cipola

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1152.99161

Systematics of Lepidocyrtinusboneti Denis, 1948 (Collembola, Seirinae) reveals a new position for the species within Seirinae

Zookeys. 2023 Mar 7:1152:97-118. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1152.99161. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro¹, Yun Bu¹, Areeruk Nilsai², Louis Deharveng³, Nikolas Gioia Cipola⁴

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai 200041, China Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum Shanghai China.
² Division of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand Prince of Songkla University Songkhla Thailand.
³ Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 45 rue Buffon, CP50, F-75005 Paris, France Sorbonne Universités Paris France.
⁴ Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, CPEN, Manaus, AM, Brazil Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA Manaus Brazil.

Abstract

Seiraboneti Denis, 1948, comb. nov. is examined and redescribed based on syntypes and by a newly discovered Chinese population. Lectotype and paralectotypes were designated, and the type locality of the species has been fixed to Câuda, near Nhatrang, Vietnam. The species was first described in the genus Lepidocyrtinus, but based on morphological and molecular evidence it is here transferred to Seira. For the phylogenetic placement of Seiraboneticomb. nov., its mitogenome was included in a dataset comprising 19 species of Seirinae. Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian inferences clustered the species next to Seirasanloemensis Godeiro & Cipola, 2020 from Cambodia, forming a distinct Seira clade from the Old World, confirming the hypothesis of the existence of a different basal lineage of Seirinae in Southern Asia.

Keywords: Asian springtails; Entomobryidae; mitogenome; paraphyletic genus; phylogeny; review; taxonomy.

Nerivania Nunes Godeiro, Yun Bu, Areeruk Nilsai, Louis Deharveng, Nikolas Gioia Cipola.

Grants and funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (no: 32170471). Research Foundation of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and Postdoctoral fund of Haibo Program of Pudong New District Prince of Songkla University for providing the Ph.D. (OTR2565-001) CNPq (PCI-DB, Process # 300925/2019-0)